Cherry Tomatoes

The gateway drug of vegetable gardening. Cherry tomatoes are prolific, forgiving, and produce fruit so sweet and sun-warm off the vine that you'll never buy a grocery store tomato again. Varieties like Sun Gold and Sweet 100 yield hundreds of fruits per plant. They thrive in containers on balconies, grow fast enough to keep impatient beginners engaged, and a single plant can produce from June through first frost. The hardest part is keeping up with the harvest.